Johannesburg Temple

Monday, July 14, 2014

Sharp! Sharp!

Happy Monday everybody. It has been another successful week here in Sebokeng. We went to the Temple, Celebrated Elder Arthur's birthday and went to Burger King. I'd say it was a pretty awesome week!

I don't know if I have ever talked about the word Sharp. It is used throughout South Africa and the sign that goes along with it, is thumbs up. They have handshakes here and one of them you hold your thumb out and the other puts their thumb to yours and snaps the thumbs together. Kinda hard to explain, but you can sort of see it in the pictures. I love it so much because every kid you see, no matter how little, knows what sharp means. They always gather around me and with their cute voices saying sharp, sharp. It is one of the best parts of the day. They also pronounce the word sharp as you would say shop. It means cool, thank you and bye. A word that you can almost use everywhere. So yeah cool stuff!

Sharp!

Going to the Temple was once again, a great experience! We had to wake up at half past four to make the seven a.m. session. It was so nice. Another awesome thing is, it was Elder Arthur's Birthday, I can think of no greater present then that.

Overlooking Joburg at the Temple Grounds

Elder Arthur Turned 23!

After we went to the Temple, we stopped by the Burger King in Joburg. Oh man it was soooo good! It has been ten months without a whopper! I missed it so much. It is still not as good as the Baconator, but it will do. Unfortunately there are no Wendy's restaurants here, so I will have to go two years without it. DARN!

Glorious, free refills!

We are finding lots of sweet people and having great lessons. We will be having a baptism on Sunday. His name is Marcus and we have been teaching him for a while. He has completed the Book of Mormon and knows it is true. It's funny, all we ask people to do is to read the Book of Mormon. It is the hardest thing in the world for most to do, but along with prayer, it's the only way to know if it's true . We just have to put in the work and God will do the rest. This happened to me and I have seen it happen to countless others that I have met over my mission thus far. The Book of Mormon is true. If you have not read it, read it. If you have read it, read it again!